In this Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013 photo, singer, dancer, choreographer and TV personality Paula Abdul smiles during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem. She's been an award-winning singer, dancer, choreographer and TV personality. Now Paula Abdul can add a new title to her resume - religious pilgrim. The former American Idol and X Factor judge is on her first trip ever to Israel, where she is connecting to her Jewish roots and planning on holding a belated Bat Mitzvah - the Jewish coming of age ceremony girls typically have at age 12 or 13. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
In this Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013 photo, singer, dancer, choreographer and TV personality Paula Abdul smiles during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem. She's been an award-winning singer, dancer, choreographer and TV personality. Now Paula Abdul can add a new title to her resume - religious pilgrim. The former American Idol and X Factor judge is on her first trip ever to Israel, where she is connecting to her Jewish roots and planning on holding a belated Bat Mitzvah - the Jewish coming of age ceremony girls typically have at age 12 or 13. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
In this Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013 photo, singer, dancer, choreographer and TV personality Paula Abdul during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem. She's been an award-winning singer, dancer, choreographer and TV personality. Now Paula Abdul can add a new title to her resume - religious pilgrim. The former American Idol and X Factor judge is on her first trip ever to Israel, where she is connecting to her Jewish roots and planning on holding a belated Bat Mitzvah - the Jewish coming of age ceremony girls typically have at age 12 or 13.(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
In this Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013 photo, singer, dancer, choreographer and TV personality Paula Abdul smiles during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem. She's been an award-winning singer, dancer, choreographer and TV personality. Now Paula Abdul can add a new title to her resume - religious pilgrim. The former American Idol and X Factor judge is on her first trip ever to Israel, where she is connecting to her Jewish roots and planning on holding a belated Bat Mitzvah - the Jewish coming of age ceremony girls typically have at age 12 or 13. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Tourism Ministry says Paula Abdul has scaled back a Bat Mitzvah ceremony that she'd originally planned to hold at Jerusalem's Western Wall.
The normally tireless TV personality came to Israel to connect to her Jewish roots and for a Bat Mitzvah, the coming-of-age ceremony girls typically have at age 12 or 13.
But the ministry, which is hosting Abdul, said Tuesday that she made last-minute changes to her packed itinerary because she's jet-lagged.
The ministry says Abdul was planning to hold a high-profile ceremony at the Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray, but instead had a private weekend affair in the northern town of Safed.
Officiating Rabbi Eyal Riess of the Tzfat Kabbalah Center says Abdul wanted to escape the media circus for a more intimate ceremony.
Abdul was not immediately available for comment.
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